Irleand Makes A Statement

St. Paul, Nov. 18.- Archbishop Ireland has heretofore adhered firmly to his first decisión not to speak of the repeated rumors (purporting to come from Rome) stating in one way or another that he was to be called to account for some of his views or actions. An Associated Press representatlve, however, after many eftorts finally succeeded Monday in getting from him tne following statement: "In all the reports recently published as to my relations with the Vatican there is not one syllable of truth. Not one word has come to me from Rome, indicating the smallest change in the kind feelings which the sovereign pontiff and his immediate advisors have been pleased to entertain toward me. It is false to say that I have been summoned to Rome. I have not been asked to give an explanation of any act, or any writing of mine. And, certainly, ii me sovereign pontifï had desired to approve, or to Mame me, he would have communicated his will to myself, instPad of making it known to me through the gossips of newspaper reporters of Europe or of America. What may be the sources of the reports or the motives of the men who put those reports into circulation - whether the enemies be political or I clesiastical - I do not know, nor do I care to inquire. The Roman paper quoted in this morning's dispatclïes is a bitter and malicious adversary of the Vatican and surely cannot be quoted as representing the views of the pope. Whether the report published in this Roman paper originated in Rome, or in America, is a matter that need not be discussed at present. The absurdity of all those reports reached tho climax when even Cardinal Gibbons was reported as likely to be disciplined by Rome."